Nursing Education Research Research Articles

Developing and Implementing Collaborative Nursing Education Research in the South

The project, Nursing Research Development in the South, was designed to facilitate collaborative research in nursing education in the South. Funded by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as a three-year project of the Southern Regional Education Board and the Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing, it began in 1977. In the first year, nursing educators and clinicians identified research problems and priorities. Nurse faculty were then invited to conduct studies examining problems in the chosen areas; 78 participated in 19 collaborative research groups.

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JD Acting Dram Essex Community College Baltimore, MD, Nursing Consultant and Director of Nursing Education Hospital Education and Research Foundation of the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania Camp Hill. Pa.

SREB Coordinates Nursing Education Research Project

SREB Coordinates Nursing Education Research Project

ICN Session Devoted to Nursing Education Research in United States

ICN Session Devoted to Nursing Education Research in United States

Nursing education research management: establishing priorities and optimizing the use of resources: a methodology

Many educational research projects start from a wide and nonoperational statement of the problem causing concern, and a difficult task for the research worker is to so refine the area of enquiry that useful and effective results of the research are produced within the constraints imposed by limited resources.An evaluative research project into the role and preparation of the midwife teacher, undertaken in 1974–5 by the authors, at the request of the Royal College of Midwives, presented such a problem (Kilty & Potter 1975). This paper illustrates the methodology employed to establish priorities in order to resolve what was an entirely open‐ended brief into a research that could be undertaken with limited resources.

PANEL DISCUSSION

HELEN M. SIMON (Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing, New York, N.Y.; Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y.) is associate professor in nursing and research associate in the Institute for Research in Nursing Service and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Teachers College, Columbia University, Institute of Research and Service in Nursing Education–New Executive Officer

Teachers College, Columbia University, Institute of Research and Service in Nursing Education–New Executive Officer

Today and Tomorrow in Nursing Research

LOOKING BACK AT THE EARLY era of nursing when Florence Nightingale and other leaders demonstrated an intense desire to improve and professionalize nursing care, it is hard to understand why so much of nursing research has been so far afield from the investigation of nursing practice itself. Why has so much time and effort been spent on the ramifications of nursing, for instance, the nurse and her abilities, her education and work place, and the organization and administration of nursing, rather than nursing practice? One reason may have been that nursing had attracted educators who visualized improved education as the best, if not the only, way to secure better service. The idea was in harmony with Miss Nightingale's mission concept; for she told her nurses to go out and start schools. To plan wisely, we need to understand why nursing research develQped as it did. Its development up to 1950 was discussed in, Research-Its Evolution, in the April issue of the Journal. Looking at a more recent time, we see that the decade 1950 through 1959 was a period of stock-taking, redirecting the research focus, and involving the profession as a whole through research activities of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing. Cooperative plans for research were made and machinery for it was augmented. New funds were made available. The Institute of Research and Service in Nursing Education at Teachers College, established in March 1953, was the first known unit to be set up with full-time staff assigned exclusively to develop and conduct organized study in nursing and nursing education and to provide a laboratory for research training for nurses. The second such unit and the first to be directed primarily toward research in the practice of nursing was, the Department of Nursing of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Harriet Werley. A more favorable setting for research in nursing practice can scarcely be conceived. The American Nurses' Association set up a statistical unit to promote research and later-in 1950a five-year program of studies of nursing functions. Under this proram, the first grants were made in 1951.

Nursing Research - Its Evolution

Mrs. McManus (Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing, Boston, Mass.; B.S., A.M., Ph.D., Columbia University) if professor of nursing education, head of the Department of Nursing Education, and director of the Institute of Research and Service in Nursing Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She took part in the early surveys of the schools of nursing from 1925 to 1928, served as research assistant in the National league of Nursing Education's curriculum study from 1935 to 1937, helped initiate and establish the testing program which has developed into a major activity of the National League for Nursing, initiated and developed the first organized unit to conduct nursing research, the Institute of Research and Service in Nursing at Columbia University, and served as chairman of the Florence Nightingale International Council of Nurses.